{"id":578,"date":"2004-02-04T05:24:59","date_gmt":"2004-02-04T10:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/02\/a_duped_nation\/"},"modified":"2004-02-04T05:24:59","modified_gmt":"2004-02-04T10:24:59","slug":"a_duped_nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/02\/a_duped_nation\/","title":{"rendered":"A Duped Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"

No matter how much I want to believe otherwise, I always seem to revert back to the position that Americans are clueless sheep. Counterspin Central directs us to a Newsweek<\/i> poll offering the latest evidence<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“Do you think Iraq actually had banned chemical or biological weapons right before the Iraq War started in March, or not?”
\nJan. 29-30, 2004
\nYes — 55%
\nNo — 32%
\nDon’t know — 13%
\n“Do you think Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq was DIRECTLY<\/u> involved in planning, financing, or carrying out the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001, or not?”
\nJan. 29-30, 2004
\nWas — 49%
\nWas Not — 39%
\nDon’t Know — 16%”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I wonder the American public may have gotten this erroneous impression?
\n(a) Bush and company invariably mentioning 9\/11 when discussing Iraq;
\n(b) Bush and company focusing attention on Saddam Hussein, while seemingly ignoring Osama bin Laden’s existence;
\n(c) Fox News Channel using a bold “War on Terror” caption whenever discussing Iraq; or
\n(d) All of the above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No matter how much I want to believe otherwise, I always seem to revert back to the position that Americans are clueless sheep. Counterspin Central directs us to a Newsweek poll offering the latest evidence: “Do you think Iraq actually had banned chemical or biological weapons right before the Iraq War started in March, or […]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-578","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}